Nirvan launched a College foundation aimed at Caine. After the first day it reached 100.000 $ !

Sir Ken Robinson, the famous advisor on education and the author of the most watched TEDTalk “School kills creativity” (with more than 8 million views) praises Caine and his creative mind! Ken uses him as an example, saying that Caine’s got what the school doesn’t teach! He often talks about how the school rectified children from being creative and open-minded, to become citizens of a society from the past, by killing all innovation and originality.

Rob Manning, Chief engineer at NASA, met Caine and finds several parallels between his and Caine’s childhood. Rob started building cardboard-rockets and spacecrafts in the backyard, now Rob has builded a real spacecraft that landed on Mars.

The hype and media around Caine led to an enormous amount of reactions from children, who shared their cardboard-creations and builded arcades and machines, all inspired by Caine. The contributions are touching!

All this led to a Global Cardboard Challenge: Children submit their cardboard creations to participate. You can do it here: http://www.imagination.is/

Today, The movie about Caine’s Arcade has been watched more than 6 million times on youtube.com and vimeo.com! Caine has “hired” many young employees who also wears the recognizable blue “Staff”-shirt and expanded the arcade area.

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I agree, Caine is original! And Sir Ken Robinson is right when he says that schools should be better to catch the potentials in kids like Caine. Here is an example of another guy like Caine, exept for the fact, that he is an adult :) Jaimie Mantzel builds robots (small and big ones) and all from scratch! His story is very similar to Caine’s. Jaimie started building robots when he was a kid, entered Brown University but instead of engineering, he chose sculpture class because they let him build robots and left him alone. Its a must read!! http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/worlds-most-wired-toymaker/

Martin,
Just a courtesy note to let you know I have also featured a story about Caine’s Arcade on the website fingerprintprojects.com along with many other stories about – cool stuff kids do – from around the globe. The site curates stories about amazing things kids do, that make a positive dint in the world.
I also have written about Kelvin Doe (DJ Focus) and a number of other projects that will be of interest to you and your readers.
Warm regards
Trudy